Subfamily Protelinae I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1851 . Cat. Méth. Coll. Mamm. Ois. (Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris):xiv.

COMMENTS: Type genus: Proteles I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824, by original designation (Melville and Smith, 1987). Ronnefeld (1969) and Meester et al. (1986) placed Proteles in a separate family.